Full text: Political economy

18. INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS 
By A. N. Whitehead, Sc.D., F.R.S. (With Diagrams.) “Mr Whitehead 
has discharged with conspicuous success the task he is so exceptionally qualified 
to undertake. For he is one of our great authorities upon the foundations of the 
science, and has the breadth of view which is so requisite in presenting to the 
reader its aims. His exposition is clear and striking. Westminster Gazette. 
19. THE ANIMAL WORLD 
By Professor F. W. Gamble, D.Sc., F.R.S. With Introduction by Sir Oliver 
Lodge. (Many Illustrations.) “ A delightful and instructive epitome of animal 
(and vegetable) life. . . . A most fascinating and suggestive survey.”—Morning 
Post. 
20. EVOLUTION 
By Professor J. Arthur Thomson and Professor Patrick Geddes. “A 
many-coloured and romantic panorama, opening up, like no other book we know, 
a rational vision of world-development."—Belfast Neivs-Letter. 
22. CRIME AND INSANITY 
By Dr C. A. Mercier, F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Author of “Text-Book of In 
sanity,” etc. “ Furnishes much valuable information from one occupying the 
highest position among medico-legal psychologists.”—Asylum News. 
28. PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 
By Sir W. F.Barrett, F.R.S., Professor of Physics, Royal College of Science, 
Dublin, 1873-1910. “ As a former President of the Psychical Research Society, 
he is familiar with all the developments of this most fascinating branch of science, 
and thus what he has to say on thought-reading, hypnotism, telepathy, crystal- 
vision, spiritualism, divinings, and so on, will be read with avidity.”—Dundee 
Courier. 
31. ASTRONOMY 
By A. R. Hinks, M.A., Chief Assistant, Cambridge Observatory, 
in thought, eclectic in substance, and critical in treatment. . . , 
little book is available.”—School World. 
“Original 
No better 
INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE 
freshly 
asily 
relations 
with philosophy, art, religion, and practical life.”—Aberdeen Journal. 
36. CLIMATE AND WEATHER 
By H. N. Dickson, D.Sc. Oxon., M.A., F.R.S.E., President of the Royal 
Meteorological Society ; Professor of Geography in University College, Reading. 
(With Diagrams.) “ The author has succeeded in presenting in a very lucid 
and agreeable manner the causes of the movement of the atmosphere and of 
the more stable winds.”—Manchester Guardian. 
4i. ANTHROPOLOGY 
By R. R. Marett, M.A., Reader in Social Anthropology in Oxford University. 
“An absolutely perfect handbook, so clear that a child could understand it, so 
fascinating and human that it beats fiction ‘ to a frazzle.’ ”—Morning Leader. 
44. THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY 
By Prof. J. G. McKendrick, M.D. “ It is a delightful and wonderfully com 
prehensive handling of a subject which, while of importance to all, does not 
readily lend itself to untechnical explanation. . . . The little book is more than 
a mere repository of knowledge ; upon every page of it is stamped the impress 
of a creative imagination.”—Glasgow Herald. 
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